STATE OF NATURE
The state of nature existed for the early inhabitants of the land between the Gulf of Finland and the Bothnian Sea, and along the shore of the Lake Ladoga, freshwater lakes, moss bogs, creeks, and rivers all the way north to the White Sea. Some individual people were in tune with their inner intuitive spiritual being, living amongst the precious resources of the natural environment and the starlit night skies. We cannot even begin to imagine the interactions that a human spirit—the mind and soul— go through when its life is entirely dependent on the provisions that the natural environment provides. People that lived their lives surrounded by the natural living environment, interacting with the life that was so rich everywhere during the spring, summer and autumn season that is what shaped their spirits and personalities. God-given natural life demonstrated through the natural environment; they were the recipients of that life, and they knew it.
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June is the beginning of summer in the southern parts of the Nordic countries. It was also hard work at times; shelters built for health reasons and protection. Food had to be gathered, fished, and hunted for provision. Wild berries had to forage for nutritional needs, and water manually carried for households. Clothing and footwear repaired and new items made. Until the time when the migrating birdlife starts to return south, year after year, return south for the warm summer daylight.
Only the most experienced, well prepared, and brave would dare to stay through the Nordic winters, which could be under snow and ice for six months (some regional variations), November to May During the cold dark winters, wild game animals are tracked and hunted, moose and deer. Fire is essential to stay healthy and alive in the Nordic cold winters. During the Nordic winter, the environment is often dead still and quiet, not a sound heard. A winter environment covered with snow insulating and trapping any sounds from the pine trees. Blue haze appears around mid-morning with no sunrise during the day, and the darkness returns at mid-afternoon. Six hours of greyish blue haze daylight is a sign of the Nordic midwinter solstice.
The season changes and the daylight hours go closer to midnight, the winter snow and ice soon melt away as the migrating birds arrive from their South Europe and African winter escape. The green vegetation starts to thrive, and soon the wild berries start to flower, giving birth to wild strawberries, bilberries, lingonberries, thorn-buck berries, and cloudberries. The environment is full of the sounds of singing bird calls and songs. Game animals such as reindeer, whitetail deer, brown bear, and the moose, they mate and give birth to their young, food is abundant during the three short months of the Nordic summer season.
The life of the natural environment speaks with narrative to a rational, intelligent human mind. It is the Creation, the works of God. Who could have measured the depth, the length, and the width of human understanding some 4500 years ago? From season to season, the people of the far north walked, boated, climbed, skied, journeyed, foraged, trapped, fished, and hunted. There was an abundant food supply of water and firewood. During the summer nights, they listened to the echo of the calls made by the water birds at a distance, endless daylight lasting all through the nighttime hours.
Through belief, faith, myth, and imagination, the nomad people’s minds began to join dots and to draw charcoal sketches of the fuller expansive imaginary world beyond their experience. A world where all the clouds of the sky glide from, and a world where all the rivers and lakes flow. An imaginary world filled with a countless number of lakes filled with the vigorous life, a world where all the migrating birds fly to and fly from, feeding and nesting amongst the reeds, green swamps, meadows filled with wildflowers and rolling hills with virgin forests, with the dark soil trails of the majestic moose.
THE PEOPLE OF SUOMI
“The story of the Ingria people groups and Cultures. “The recent studies have rejected the old theories that the Baltic Finns had come to the shores of the region in waves of migrations in the early part of the first century, from east to south-east. Results of the research had revealed that the North-European people were of Finn stock (Kanta Suomalainen). Not to be confused with the Finn-Ukraine stock (kantasuomlais-Ugrilaista), as they also moved to the north as the Indo-European people groups became to settle there. They also have a relatively recent history, integrated with the Indo-European Nations. Similarly, the Baltic Finn tribes and their Nationality are a representation of the local indigenous people of the Baltic Sea, in the same way as the Sami people represent the Indigenous people who found their habitation environment in the south and the far north. The Baltic Sea Finns, the Ingria land people (Inkeriläiset) also have roots that go far back in history. (Saressalo, 2000) Lassi Saressalo.”
IMPERIAL GRAND DUCHIES OF FINLAND 1581
“An extended Southwest Finland was made a titular grand duchy in 1581, when King John III of Sweden, who as a prince had been the Duke of Finland (1556–1561/63), extended the list of subsidiary titles of the Kings of Sweden considerably. The new title Grand Duke of Finland did not result in any Finnish autonomy, as Finland was an integrated part of the Kingdom of Sweden with full parliamentary representation for its counties. (Sweden, Grand Duchy of Finland, 2018)”
FINNISH WAR 1808
The Finnish War fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from February 1808 to September 1809. As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden established as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire. (Sweden, Finnish War, 2018)
EMPEROR NICHOLAS II
Nicholas II (1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. The people of the Russian revolution rejected their Monarchy system. (Russia, Nicholas II of Russia, 2018)
THE PEOPLE FINLAND IN THE IMPERIAL POWER VICE
The people of Finland grew up on land, located between a rock and a hard place. The two Imperial Superpowers were Sweden on West side of the Bothnia Sea, and Russia on the East side of Lake Ladoga and the Neva River. Both Imperial superpowers have influenced, intimidated, invaded, educated and betrayed trust with the people and the government of Finland over the last 500 years. These two-imperial superpowers were not equal; they have a very different history, cultural values, and people’s national identity and destiny.
Nordic countries have been spiritually inspired and influenced by the evangelical Christian values, not a dead religion. The two Imperial superpowers also had different ambitions, inclinations, prejudices, dispositions, and motives in invading the people of the Nordic countries. It is refreshing to think how Sweden has managed to stay within their national skin. The Soviet Union was not able to stay within their Russian national skin, almost like a giant snake eating up others outside their borders, and always restless, and never satisfied or settled.
The ability to stay within one’s skin takes self-control. There must be the ability to see some good in what they have. They have acquired vast natural resources, mostly from indigenous people’s lands. What is Moscow? If all the indigenous people like Sami people of the Kola Peninsula and the Sami people of Siberia and further East were given their original ancestral lands back?
It is reasonable to say that those that have much should be the most hospitable and generous. The USSR was never generous, was never hospitable to their neighbors. They caused unimaginable suffering and heartache for millions of people that lost their neighbors, parents, husbands, wives, and children to labor camps and the persecution of political prisoners.
The Imperial powers did not always just come randomly or impulsively to the territory of the Suomi people. They came after calculated strategic war planning was complete. The Imperial Russian leaders had planned far in advance for their territorial, material or political ends. At other times the Superpower leaders were driven by personal ambition, impulsions, and fantasies as dictators do. The superpowers have always included the use of military force, once the military force is sufficiently built up and intimidating, then right to human nature they exploit that intimidation and make outrageous demands for territory or other material wealth. If the Imperial demands were not met, then they keep going on rolling destruction, which flattens whatever that is sticking up in their way to be flattened. It is sinister and ruthless exploitation, history of full of such exploits committed by imperial superpowers and hungry dictators.
THE GOOD NEWS
“It was through Sweden that the Good News Gospel came to Finland after the first millennium.
The First Swedish Crusade is said to have taken place with a military expedition, around the year 1150 AD. It was the first attempt by Sweden to convert Finnish pagan cultural to Christianity. According to the legend, it was by King Eric IX of Sweden with an English bishop by the name of Henry of Uppsala, who also remained in Finland, but was killed by a pagan Finn. (Bishop of Finland)
The Second crusades from Sweden according to Eric’s Chronicle from 1320-1340, the crusade took place between Birger Jarl getting elevated to the position of jarl in 1248 and the death of King Eric XI of Sweden in 1250.
The Third Crusade was far-reaching in East Finland region Karelia. The Viborg Castle established in the Gulf of Finland Bay Viborg Karelia, and western Karelia remained under Swedish rule for over 400 years. It was an expedition focused on the pagan Karelians in 1293.”
“It is fair to say that the Swedish influence on the early Finnish culture has been positive, and one of nation-building. The Swedish Royalty certainly did lord it over their subjects and kept their subjects in their little place. Until 1800 when the Russian got the better of the Swedes militarily, the nation of Sweden never again glorified its nation with military supremacy and conquering exploits.Sweden today is more pre-occupied with their export home brands, making the world news with product brand like HUSGAVARNA, SAAB, VOLVO, SCANIA, IKEA, Electrolux, Ericsson, H & H and Skype. The consistent quality control, production and global distribution are respected worldwide. Sweden is still today one of the two official languages in Finland.”
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